Andrea Martin

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.